Pruning

This morning I went out for a short three mile run so that I could get back to do the pruning of everything damaged by the frost last winter, before it got too hot.  (We have a solar flare coming today, you know). I ran into (not literally) the park lady with the wiener dog. We got to talking.  She told me the gators are back out, as she could recognize their growl and saw a couple of big ones around the lake. She was telling me about the damage to her citrus trees and how she hoped she could prune them back okay.  She said that they could have been hit so severely that they will only produce small, sour fruit next year.

As soon as I got home I began my own pruning. (Michael was still out running with his friend Steve, so I began without him. My poor orange tree was really hit hard from the last freeze(yes, it is my tree I bought it with money from my parents). So that meant it needed a severe pruning. After we pruned it, I put fresh fertilizer around it and watered it good.  Hopefully, it will come back now, fuller and more fruitful and sweet than ever.  I'll be anxious to see it again in the fall, when we come back.

That's the way it is in our life.  We need to prune out of our life anything that is not working for us. Then we need to replace that with renewed energy for the good, productive parts of our life.  And we don't look back at the dead part we lopped off, either.  It is gone and something wonderfully new will take its place.  That's when life is good.